#paroled prisoner

[luulapants]

talking to people recently out of prison: a do-and-don't guide

Don't ask, "How was prison?" (Answer: traumatic!)

Do ask, "What are you most looking forward to doing again now that you're out?"

Don't ask, "How long were you in for?" (Answer: too long!)

Do ask, "Is there any technology or pop culture I can help catch you up on?"

Don't ask, "How are you going to avoid getting back into bad behaviors?" (Leave the paternalistic bullshit to their PO.)

Do ask, "How's your support network? Do you have people helping you adjust?"

Don't ask, "Do you have a job yet?" (Their PO is asking them ALL the time, don't worry.)

Do ask, "Are there any opportunities I should keep an ear out for and let you know about?"

Don't ask, "Do you have an ankle monitor?" (And definitely don't ask to see it - no one likes to be gawked at.)

Do ask, "Do you have parole restrictions we need to accommodate when making plans?"

Don't say, "Hey, you shouldn't be doing that - it's against your parole!" (A lot of parole restrictions are bullshit, and they are an adult who deserves agency, even the agency to take risks.)

Do ask, "Are there any bullshit parole restrictions you need help working around?"

Don't ask, "Are you an addict?" (Not everyone in prison is, and they'll tell you if they want you to know.)

Do say, "If there's stuff you might get in trouble for, like empty alcohol containers, I can throw them away at my place."

Don't say, "It's probably best if you put your whole prison life behind you and start fresh." (Just because it was traumatic doesn't mean important experiences and relationships didn't happen there.)

Do say, "If you have letters from friends on the inside that you don't want your PO to find, you can keep them at my place."

Don't say, "You paid your debt to society." (Regardless of what they may have done, harm cannot be repaid through senseless suffering.)

Do say, "You are more than the worst thing you've ever done."

Do not ever ask "What were you arrested for?"/"What did you do?"/"Were you guilty?"

People are more than the worst thing they've ever done.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"RETURNED TO PRISON FOR VIOLATING PAROLE," North Bay Nugget. April 25, 1934. Page 3. --- Carleton Place Man Failed to Report His Whereabouts Monthly ---- Archie York, 26, Carleton Place, wouldn't take the trouble to report in writing to the Ontario Parole Board once a month. Now he has to spend the next two years of his life in Kingston Penitentiary.

This was the sentence imposed upon him by Magistrate Weegar in police court Thursday morning. E. J. Etherington, Toronto, assistant parole officer for Ontario, prosecuted.

York and his brother were convicted of theft in North Bay last week and were sentenced to 30 days in the district jail.

Convicted of robbery with violence at Smiths Falls on April 30, 1929, York was sentenced to 18 months determinate and 18 months Indeterminate in the Guelph Reformatory. He was released Nov. 19, 1930 and given employment on a farm. He made but one report to the Parole Board and quit his job after two months.

[York was from Almonte, Ontario, was 26, single, and a labourer. At Kingston Penitentiary, he was convict #3436 and worked on the farm. He was transferred June 1935 to Collin's Bay Penitentiary, becoming inmate #871, and was released October 1935.]

[sunderwight]

has anyone written a Loki series fic where Don the Jet Ski Salesman comes home one day to find his boys hiding something in the garage, and is tiredly like "is it snake? I better not go in there and find out you guys robbed a zoo--" only to open the garage door and see an injured, bewildered frost giant Loki prodding cautiously at a bag of doritos (the boys attempted to provide sustenance) (could be angst or good just be the version from the What If? episode trying to recover from a bender with Thor)

[blackbrownfamily]

The Black Family

[frankiebirds]

I've always been a little thrown off by the way the characters (the team and the passengers) react to Reid trying to talk down Ted, and I've never liked that the episode ends with Ted being shot (although I appreciate that he survives).

I'm not saying this to be critical of the characters: the team doesn't have audio, and the passengers (save for Elle and the incapacitated psychologist) don't have the knowledge to see Reid getting through to him, but:

I don't know. Look at Ted's face. I'm bad at reading expressions, but at the very least, this doesn't seem like the expression of someone unaffected by what's being said to him, or the face of a man who's about to start shooting people. During the conversation, Ted stops aiming the gun at Reid, and yells at Leo to shut up when he tells him to shoot Reid.

I really think that Reid was on his way to talking Ted down, and I wish he'd gotten to do it. I don't think Elle hitting Ted while Reid is talking him down makes a lot of sense*. She's one of the few passengers who can understand that Ted is calming down, and I think she's at the right angle to see his changing expression. I wish Reid had gotten the chance to keep talking, because I do think he was close to ending it without anyone else getting shot.

One other thing I noticed while watching this episode—throughout the episode, Leo has always been onscreen while he speaks, either in the same frame as Ted, or the camera cuts to him while he speaks. However, if you rewatch the scene, notice that whenever Leo speaks during it, not only is he always offscreen, but his voice has an echo to it that wasn't there before. I don't think most of the analysis I post is reflective of the writer's intent, but that seems very intentional to me, symbolizing that Leo is becoming less real to Ted and therefore losing his grip on him.

*this is a criticism of the writing, not the character. yes, elle is impulsive, but the choice to hit ted while he's being talked down and is no longer aiming the gun at anyone seems like a strange and risky choice.

[anywaysstreamfancybytwice]

Anissa is genuinely scary. I was literally tweaking out wtf

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

After being framed for the murder of two FBI agents in 1975 and imprisoned for two consecutive life sentences, Leonard Peltier will most likely die in federal prison.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-corruption/indigenous-activist-leonard-peltier-will-likely-die-in-prison-after-parole-denied

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[reasonsforhope]

"New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill into law Friday that prohibits sentencing juvenile offenders to life in prison without eligibility for parole.

Under SB64, the No Life Sentences for Juveniles Act, offenders who committed crimes when they were younger than 18 and received life sentences will be eligible for parole hearings 15 to 25 years into their sentences, depending on the conviction, according to the state’s legislative website.

The legislation also applies to juveniles who were found guilty of first-degree murder even if they were tried as adults. If any juvenile offender is denied parole, they will “be entitled to a parole hearing at two-year intervals,” according to the bill.

New Mexico joins a slew of states that have enacted similar sentencing measures following a 2021 Supreme Court ruling that made it easier for those who committed their crimes when they were younger than 18 to be sentenced to prison for life without parole.

“When children commit serious crimes, they should be held accountable, but they should not spend their entire lives in prison without a chance for redemption,” said Democratic state Sen. Kristina Ortez, one of the bill’s sponsors, in a Facebook post...

The legislation passed the state Senate in late February with bipartisan support, and passed in the House earlier this week along party lines.

Illinois also passed a bill last month banning juvenile life sentences without parole. At least 24 other states and Washington, DC, have similar laws, according to the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, a nonprofit advocacy organization."

-via CNN, 3/18/23

[murderballadeer]

the fundamental need to listen to a song about going to jail bc you didn't listen to your mom really

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Sharp was asked by Native News Online’s editor Levi Rickert to discuss Leonard Peltier’s poor health at age 79 after decades in prison and his belief that Peltier risks death if kept in maximum security. He discusses the historical context of the 1975 Pine Ridge murders, and Peltier’s involvement with the American Indian Movement, arguing Peltier’s constitutional rights were violated during his 1977 trial.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Crown Not Prosecuting," Border Cities Star. May 9, 1934. Page 7. --- Lord's Day Act Cases Up to Municipality, Says Mr. Allan --- Trials Postponed ---- Parole Breaker Asks For Hearing at Place Where He Was Sent Up --- Before Magistrate Brodie laid over until next week hearing of the charges of operating on Sunday brought against six Windsor factories, in police court today, Crown Attorney James S. Allan announced he is in possession of definite instructions from the late Edward C. Bayly, K.C., deputy attorney-general, in connection with prosecutions under the Lord's Day Act. These, he said, are purely a matter for the attention of the local municipality and the Crown has no connection with the prosecutions.

SIX FIRMS AGREE All six firms were represented in court and agreed to the postponement. They are: the Windsor Bedding Company, Limited; the Canadian Containers Company, Limited; L. A. Young Industries, Limited; Bryant Pattern Manufacturing Company, Limited; Kelsey Wheel Company, Limited, and Auto Specialties Company, Limited.

His Worship explained to Walter Anderson that his request for a trial in the city where he broke his parole would have to be considered by the Attorney-General's Department, with little reason for expecting it it to be granted. Anderson elected a jury trial on the charge of breach of parole. He was arrested as a vagrant in Windsor.

Assistant Parole Officer E. J. Hetherington testified that Anderson was convicted of forgery in Toronto in 1932, sentenced to three months definite and nine months indeterminate in Guelph Reformatory and paroled after about four months. He reported to the parole officer three times, it was stated, and then disappeared.

"I learned a lesson from the time I spent in Guelph," Anderson declared. "But the hours were too long at the hotel in Niagara Falls where I was working and d I I set out for another job in Toronto. I was afraid they might send me back to Guelph because I didn't tell them I was going, so I did not report.

GETS BENEFIT OF DOUBT The proverbial "benefit of the doubt" was extended to Clarence Cosgrove, 20, in a charge of stealing automobile tires from a trailer at the Kennedy Collegiate Stadium. Mrs. Margaret Cosgrove, his mother, told the court Clarence could not have taken the tires, since she knew his every movement during the period in which the theft occurred.

"Clarence was never in any trouble," she asserted stoutly. "His younger brother runs around with a bad lot. He told me the other boys took two tires, not these, and drove a car away some time ago. It might have been them, but not this boy. Two of the lads my younger son runs with have gone away on the freights and no one knows where they are."

Board of Education employes identified the tires, and W. Lecroix, from whom Cosgrove bought his car a few days before the thefts, declared the allegedly stolen property was not part of the equipment sold. The tires on the car at that time, he declared, were worn almost to the cord. Accused claimed he had noticed no change in the tires.

"Do you mean you bought a car without looking at the tires?" inquired the bench. "I thought the car was worth five dollars without tires at all," Cosgrove explained.

DENIES GUILT A plea of not guilty was entered by Robert Cochrane, 17, who was not allowed to plead when he appeared on an auto theft charge last week because his father was not in court. Cochrane, senior, put in an appearance today and the case was remanded to May 14.

[theircurse]

╰ ☆ ✧ — @vulpesly asked: "What exactly are you looking for?"

[ from jono ]

↳ -: ☆ ( &. 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. ) ☆ :-

˗ˏˋ *ㅤ★ㅤ‿︵ㅤ˗ˏˋㅤ𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒉𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆 as they turn towards the man. Maybe they shouldn't have just snuck inㅤ—ㅤbut they didn't see too much of a problem with it. After all, they were on their OWN very important mission !

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[coochiequeens]

Texas - where a woman with a life threatening pregnancy has to go before the state Supreme Court for a life saving abortion but this freak gets transferred because to a women's prison

By Anna Slatz December 12, 2023

A trans-identified male convicted of rape and child sexual abuse has been transferred to a women’s federal prison after launching a lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons claiming “discrimination.” July Justine Shelby, born William McClain, was convicted on multiple counts of child pornography trafficking after being caught distributing photos of infants being sexually abused.

Shelby was initially arrested in November of 2016 in Indianapolis, Indiana, after being linked to a cellphone found to contain graphic images of child rape. Shelby had been sending the images to another man later identified as a romantic interest of Shelby’s named Beau Thornburgh.

Shelby had met Thornburgh while in prison, and the two had developed a relationship over the course of their 12 years incarcerated together.

When arrested, Shelby was on parole for rape and child molestation, and was not permitted to own a device which had access to the internet.

He was also subjected to GPS monitoring, which was quickly analyzed and used as additional evidence to connect him to Thornburgh, with Shelby appearing to regularly visit the other man’s residence. Thornburgh was also a registered sex offender at the time.

Shelby, who already identified as transgender at the time, was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison on charges of child pornography distribution and sent to Otisville FCI — a medium security institution for male offenders in New York.

He quickly began to present obstacles to his sentence, almost immediately filing a petition to have his conviction vacated after alleging his counsel had been “ineffective.” The court dismissed his motion, noting that he failed to demonstrate any evidence of the claim.

In 2020, Shelby filed a handwritten emergency writ of habeas corpus, claiming that his life was at risk in a men’s institution.

In the document, Shelby claimed multiple constitutional grievances, including that his First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were being violated on the basis of his gender identity.

Despite having been moved to a women’s prison, Shelby has continued to pursue legal action and demand various remedies. Among his new complaints are that he has been housed with the “worst of the worst” female offenders, and that his risk classification has been set too high.

In an April 2023 complaint, Shelby stated that the females on his unit have “made it clear” that he was not welcome at the facility, and that he lived in “fear” of being attacked by the “violent females” he was being housed with.

Shelby’s transfer appears to be the result of the Biden administration’s attempt to restore Obama-era guidelines surrounding the housing and treatment of transgender offenders in the federal system.

In January of 2022, the Bureau of Prisons re-issued its Transgender Offender Manual, which included guidelines previously scrubbed by the Trump administration with respect to gender self-identification for federal inmates. Under Trump, housing was based on biological sex alone, but the Biden policies re-invoked Obama-era guidelines which make a transgender inmate’s “personal safety” a priority.

The guidelines also stated that ‘misgendering’ is expressly forbidden, and that taxpayers must subsidize cosmetic surgeries, sex hormones, and brassieres for men who claim to identify as transgender.

According to Keep Prisons Single Sex USA, there are approximately 1,980 transgender offenders in the federal system, of which 1,295 are trans-identified males. Of them, almost 50% are in custody for sex offenses. This is compared to just 12% of the general federal inmate population, meaning that trans-identified males are incarcerated for sex offenses at a rate of almost four times that of non-transgender inmates.

Between 2022 and 2023, there was an almost 23% increase of federal inmates who identified as transgender.

[sobeautifullyobsessed]

People can see when I like their posts! They can see when I reblog them!! My gosh, I can comment as a reply!!! Will wonders never cease!!!!

[clemsfilmdiary]

Double Jeopardy (1999, Bruce Beresford)

1/10/24

[indigostreaking]

Will I ever know peace?

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